I watched the game right up till we were down 4-3 with a few minutes left and we got another penalty.. I was like fuck it just not the pens night... went to bed and watched TV..sounds like I turned it off about 4 minutes to early.. Damn...

Had trouble with streams, but saw Haglin's rifle shot to the corner of the net. Thought they had it in hand. Then I had more stream problems and let it go until the last 2-3 minutes of regulation. Thought for sure I was going to watch them lose.

Crosby is a freak, but hard to blame Shattenkirk. Who the fuck makes a backhand goal from behind the net while facing the boards?

Lundqvist was shocked. When asked what happened, he said after rambling about details : "Crosby" is what happened.

McDonagh fucked up big time in OT. Kessel and Malkin in your defensive zone and you play with the puck behind the net?

What a way to finish a game. And to do it in your opponent's house.

This is what makes hockey worth watching.

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McDonagh fucked up big time in OT. Kessel and Malkin in your defensive zone and you play with the puck behind the net?

He was staring at Zibanejad that whole sequence and was looking to bank a pass off the boards which would have given the Rags a 2-on-1 the other way. Never saw Phil standing in front of him.

Pretty sure fatigue had something to do with that too- they were just coming off an icing. Remember the new rule where you cannot call timeout after an icing...

I was listening to the game at that point, and don't think the Pens broadcast team was up to speed on the new rule. They were seeing how gassed the Rangers were and would likely call timeout after the icing.

Had trouble with streams, but saw Haglin's rifle shot to the corner of the net. Thought they had it in hand. Then I had more stream problems and let it go until the last 2-3 minutes of regulation. Thought for sure I was going to watch them lose.

Crosby is a freak, but hard to blame Shattenkirk. Who the fuck makes a backhand goal from behind the net while facing the boards?

Lundqvist was shocked. When asked what happened, he said after rambling about details : "Crosby" is what happened.

McDonagh fucked up big time in OT. Kessel and Malkin in your defensive zone and you play with the puck behind the net?

What a way to finish a game. And to do it in your opponent's house.

This is what makes hockey worth watching.

Gretzky about a hundred times in his career. Lemieux as well. Both were masters of banking it off the tender.

It was a nice goal but the King blew it. He has to be aware that Crosby is there and even though he was limited to a back hand shot Lundqvist has to cover that side up ALWAYS.

The Rangers had to be thinking they had 2 points in hand so losing it the way they did must be disheartening.

One thing that is troubling about this team is that they have given up a lot of goals this season. Coming into the game last night the Rangers had struggled to score in any of their games. So them dropping 4 on us is concerning.

Thankfully Kessel and Malkin broke out finally. The last three goals went through them.

Gretzky about a hundred times in his career. Lemieux as well. Both were masters of banking it off the tender.

It was a nice goal but the King blew it. He has to be aware that Crosby is there and even though he was limited to a back hand shot Lundqvist has to cover that side up ALWAYS.

I'll appropriate swiss's I don't know shit about hockey line, and haven't seen nearly as much hockey as you experts, but I've seen a number of those in the past few years. Guys were facing the net, with a clear shot to bounce off the goalie's back. One in particular that I found impressive was one that bounced off the boards behind the net, off the back of the goalie's helmet, and into the net. But that's rare. Crosby's blind shot was other worldly. But then again, Gretzky and Lemieux were other worldly as well.

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Anyone else catch the stat with the number of players with multipoint games vs the Rangers in their career?

Here's what it was, roughly:

Active players with most career multipoint games vs the Rangers:

Jagr: 29 (20 as a Penguin)Crosby: 22Geno: 13Kessel : 11(6 as a Pen)Kunitz: 7 (7 as a Pen)Letang: 6James Neal: 5 (all as a Pen)

The rest of the league: 2 other players at 5g

The Pen obviously like to take it to the Rangers which is odd because they have blown 3-1 series leads this decade against them in the playoffs.They mentioned this last night; the Rangers haven't had a coach last longer than five seasons since 1939. Tough gig.

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Gretzky about a hundred times in his career. Lemieux as well. Both were masters of banking it off the tender.

It was a nice goal but the King blew it. He has to be aware that Crosby is there and even though he was limited to a back hand shot Lundqvist has to cover that side up ALWAYS.

I'll appropriate swiss's I don't know shit about hockey line, and haven't seen nearly as much hockey as you experts, but I've seen a number of those in the past few years. Guys were facing the net, with a clear shot to bounce off the goalie's back. One in particular that I found impressive was one that bounced off the boards behind the net, off the back of the goalie's helmet, and into the net. But that's rare. Crosby's blind shot was other worldly. But then again, Gretzky and Lemieux were other worldly as well.

Hardly an expert.Not sure if Gretzky invented the shot off the goalies back but he made it a staple. Honestly I think Crosby has scored dozens of better goals than that one last night. I find a lot of fault with Lundqvist considering he plays so deep in his net. I'll wager that Crosby practices that kind of shot from time to time. It all seemed so calculated on his part last night. I give him, Crosby, more credit for when he scored the goal rather than the kind of goal it was.

One other thing, the Pens,IMO are only playing at about 75% of their potential. They NEED a third line center. McKegg is a nice player but he isn't on par with Bonino, Cullen or even Staal(when we won back in 09'). I believe this is holding this team back.Letang isn't back, yet. Nine months removed he isn't playing that suffocating style he is capable of. Sure his minutes are almost back to norm but he seems to be working the rust off in his own end.

A lot of times Mario would score on the forehand but be standing below the goal line, but from deep like halfway between the near goal post and boards. If you set up the umbrella it was really hard to account for him because you wouldn’t think someone at that angle could score that easily but Mario was an assassin from that spot.

Plus when the goalie makes a last ditch effort to get to that post a lot of times it would go off the goalie and in. I’m amazed at how good the pros are at scoring from poor angles; Mario was easily one of the best, if not the best.